Saturday, December 5, 2015

Missy minicomic by Daryl Seitchik

(Oily,
darylseitchik.tumblr.com) It used to be kids looked like lazy readers when they
read comics instead of “real books”, but for the last decade half of the
so-called chapter books they read are in a heavily illustrated, pseudo comics,
“diary” form, most having the exact same snide sense of humor, and while I
won’t brand the kids as lazy, 90% of the writers sure seem like
take-the-easy-route hacks. This somber, funny minicomic takes the
pre-adolescent form and makes it exactly what it should be: anon-intentionally
funny, matter-of-factly-angstly, awkwardly worded, shittily spelled, work of
sublime poetry. The spare yet jarring drawings don’t hurt the cause, either.